The wife and family of Abu Qatada have left the UK, five weeks after the
radical preacher was deported.

They flew from Heathrow to Amman in Jordan on a scheduled flight yesterday
after voluntarily agreeing to leave and to abandon attempts to stay in
Britain permanently. They were driven to the airport by Home Office
officials at lunchtime.

Abu Qatada’s wife and their five children, aged between 11 and 23, had been
living in a taxpayer-funded home in Stanmore, northwest London. They
received government assistance to leave. Abu Qatada’s lawyer had told a
Special Immigration Appeals Commission earlier this year